Third

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Third may mean:

In music theory:

  • Major third
  • Minor third
  • The mediant, and the chord built on the mediant, is often called simply the third, as it is the third degree of the diatonic scale.
  • The note of a chord forming the interval of a major or minor third (whether simple or compound) above the chord's root.

Music albums:

In mathematics:

  • the ordinal number corresponding to 3 (number), as well as the irreducible fraction \frac {1} {3}

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